Port Legrand

Historically and naturally a source of projects, the Seine is also an opportunity for the city to create a fertile façade. The river's course is regularly punctuated by active points within the capital. The Port Legrand site makes Boulogne part of a major metropolitan dynamic. It is essential to create a project that is open to the city, enabling the people of Boulogne to reclaim the landscape of the Seine and the unique view of the Parc de Saint-Cloud.

The project seeks a new floating typology based on a regular cubic module that allows maximum flexibility of internal spaces while guaranteeing the liveliness of the port façade. The minimal structure is a prerequisite for moduarity and maximum use. It also makes it possible to play with different temporalities, allowing for one-off events as well as daily use.

Thus, on the quay as well as on the Seine, permanent as well as temporary programs are established. The project seeks to consolidate an existing activity in the horizontal public space, but also to create an event in the vertical.

The regularity of the project's spatial and structural framework also allows for its fragmentation, serialization allows for exceptions, and the cohabitation of several principles would only enrich the overall silhouette.

credits

Architects: Clément Blanchet Architecture
Client: Pégase
Nature of the operation: Competition
Realised in: 2019
Site: Paris, France
Program: Mixed use
Budget: NA

team composition

Yatch designer: Romain Scolari